Thursday, January 11, 2024 | 11:00am - 12:00pm
Leslie Pielack, Birmingham Museum Director T
When white settlement came to southeast Michigan in the early 1800s, the only land route into the wilderness of Oakland County was the Saginaw Indian Trail (now Woodward Avenue). The primary Indigenous tribes who used the trail were known as the Three Fires Alliance, consisting of the Odawa (Ottawa), Ojibwe (Chippewa) and the Potawatomi. Join Birmingham Museum Director and author Leslie Pielack for a look at the history of the trail, the Indigenous people of the area and the impact of white settlement on the Native Americans in Lower Michigan
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